Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams - Hardcover

Homer, William Innes; Goodrich, Lloyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810915995 ISBN 13: 9780810915992

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1989

Synopsis

Traces the life and career of the enigmatic American artist, discusses his unusual painting technique, and looks at his literary and artistic influences

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Dark and brooding, Ryder's (1847-1917) masterful paintings seem to well up out of the superconscious. His heavily textured canvases of storm-tossed ships, moonlit vistas or the haunting allegory Death on a Pale Horse are direct confrontations with nature and with our nature. He is surely one of America's greatest, most enigmatic artists, yet this definitive and beautifully illustrated biographical-critical study is the first full-length scholarly book on Ryder, according to University of Delaware art historian Homer, who collaborated with the late Goodrich, former director of New York's Whitney Museum. The authors shatter the conventional image of the self-taught recluse and give us instead a complex renegade who participated in New York anti-establishment art circles, mingled easily with ordinary workers and bent the influences of Wagner, the Bible, classical myths and dawning European modernism to his idiosyncratic vision.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0810915995
• ISBN 13: 9780810915992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256